Questions and Suggestions
Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 5:41 pm
Being a novice with computers you will have to bear with me. First a suggestion: your documentation covers the use of your product quite well. However one is left to sift though the forum to find how to implement any application using your product. Adding a section to your documentation to cover this would be beneficial to both users and potential customers looking at your software. It is understood with the varying usage specific recommendations in this section would not be possible.
My desktop system currently consists of Windows 7 Home Premium, with 6GB of RAM (2GB were recently added). For some strange reason the available memory went from +/- 3GB to 2GB when I upgraded from Windows XP to 7. No hardware changes were made at the time of the upgrade. Otherwise the OS seems to work well. The lack of memory is what brought me to your product.
Following comments found on this forum, 4GB of IM was made available and split into two RAM drives. Page file allocation was set up on a 2GB I/O RAM disc. Readyboost was setup on a 2GB SCSI RAM disc. Both have been working well, and I have noticed a performance increase with the start up of the OS and various programs.
The following paging file allocation was setup with Regedit:
Z:\pagefile.sys 1000 2000
C:\pagefile.sys 20 1000
My Computer indicates Drive Z has 1 of 2GB free. Looking at Z’s directory a 1GB paging file was seen. Looking at the Task Manager – Under the System Section displayed by the Performance Tab only +/- 3000 MB were indicated next to the Commit item. This matches the lower limit setup with the paging file allocation. If the lower limit is changed to match the upper limit of 2000 and the computer is rebooted the Commit amount of memory changes to +/- 4000 MB.
Does the amount of memory on the Commit line in the Task Manager reflect a dynamic memory setting? What is a good value to use for the lower limit? Half of the maximum RAM allocated, 500 MB, or depending on use? If depending on use a single example would be helpful.
My use of the computer entails internet, MS office, desktop database development, high end gaming, and small amount of photo or graphic editing. In the near future I would expect to be developing some web based database applications using Alpha Software. What would be a general recommendation for a balance between the amounts of the 4GB of IM assigned to Readyboast and paging files?
I have seen some mention of using Vsuite Ramdisk for facilitating the use of hibernation. Could you provide a link or some comments on how this works and if it would be practical for home use? What if any other use of Vsuite Ramdisk with other programs or Windows resources would benefit overall computer performance? What if any features offered by the professional edition would be useful for home use?
Shortly I will be purchasing the Standard Edition, but am open to reasons for purchasing the Professional Edition.
One last thought before going. For some strange reason almost all forums provided by companies, including yours, lack a link (That can be easily be found) to their own home page. All these forums have company logos at the top, but do not link to the company home page as expected. All the home pages of the companies have links to their forums though.
Thanks,
Rich
My desktop system currently consists of Windows 7 Home Premium, with 6GB of RAM (2GB were recently added). For some strange reason the available memory went from +/- 3GB to 2GB when I upgraded from Windows XP to 7. No hardware changes were made at the time of the upgrade. Otherwise the OS seems to work well. The lack of memory is what brought me to your product.
Following comments found on this forum, 4GB of IM was made available and split into two RAM drives. Page file allocation was set up on a 2GB I/O RAM disc. Readyboost was setup on a 2GB SCSI RAM disc. Both have been working well, and I have noticed a performance increase with the start up of the OS and various programs.
The following paging file allocation was setup with Regedit:
Z:\pagefile.sys 1000 2000
C:\pagefile.sys 20 1000
My Computer indicates Drive Z has 1 of 2GB free. Looking at Z’s directory a 1GB paging file was seen. Looking at the Task Manager – Under the System Section displayed by the Performance Tab only +/- 3000 MB were indicated next to the Commit item. This matches the lower limit setup with the paging file allocation. If the lower limit is changed to match the upper limit of 2000 and the computer is rebooted the Commit amount of memory changes to +/- 4000 MB.
Does the amount of memory on the Commit line in the Task Manager reflect a dynamic memory setting? What is a good value to use for the lower limit? Half of the maximum RAM allocated, 500 MB, or depending on use? If depending on use a single example would be helpful.
My use of the computer entails internet, MS office, desktop database development, high end gaming, and small amount of photo or graphic editing. In the near future I would expect to be developing some web based database applications using Alpha Software. What would be a general recommendation for a balance between the amounts of the 4GB of IM assigned to Readyboast and paging files?
I have seen some mention of using Vsuite Ramdisk for facilitating the use of hibernation. Could you provide a link or some comments on how this works and if it would be practical for home use? What if any other use of Vsuite Ramdisk with other programs or Windows resources would benefit overall computer performance? What if any features offered by the professional edition would be useful for home use?
Shortly I will be purchasing the Standard Edition, but am open to reasons for purchasing the Professional Edition.
One last thought before going. For some strange reason almost all forums provided by companies, including yours, lack a link (That can be easily be found) to their own home page. All these forums have company logos at the top, but do not link to the company home page as expected. All the home pages of the companies have links to their forums though.
Thanks,
Rich